I remember years ago getting up from watching television thinking those are hours I would never get back, but it’s really much worse than I thought. You may be outraged at the information that has been down-played or hidden from us for decades.

Don’t Read Another Word

Please don’t read this post if you are sitting at the computer for hours and hours and not caring for your family as you ought. This is on my heart today, and I must share it.

In my testimony, I shared how my parent’s generation coming out of WWII were focused on getting that first dishwasher or possibly a second car, but the last several generations, from the Baby Boomers on are focused on entertainment, perhaps in an attempt to escape the emptiness that materialism bred.

Our parents abdicated parenting to work harder, but today parents are abdicating to play harder!

Samuel Adams by Copley Click

Please vote. Take your sons and daughters with you. Explain to them the very awesome privilege we have of helping to choose our own leaders.

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual – or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” ~Samuel Adams, Essay in the Boston Gazette, April 16, 1781

Raising masculine boys today is a challenge especially when they are bombarded with wrong messages of what it is to be a man. It seems our culture is slipping away from valuing truly manly men – traditionally masculine men and fathers (gentlemen) – who lead their home, personal lives, and family well.

And a caveat: I am not talking about the wide range of God-given physical features or strength here. A man doesn’t need to be ruggedly built or look a certain way to be a wise, capable leader. And if there is a disability, the work becomes that of developing the mind and the inner spirit of the man. Hard work doesn’t always have to be physical….

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